00:00So, one of the exciting things about Doc is that it is based on a true story.
00:06It is a pretty far-out scenario, but it turns out there is a doctor in Italy.
00:11He lost, I believe, 12 years of memory of his life.
00:18My name is Pierdante Piccioni.
00:20I am a doctor.
00:22This new Fox drama, Doc, is inspired by my life.
00:27I had a car accident, and I lost 12 years of memories completely.
00:34You have partial retrograde amnesia.
00:36I was the chief of an emergency department in a big Italian hospital, and I became in
00:42an instant a patient.
00:46I think that must be such a terrifying place to be.
00:50When I woke up, in my mind, my children was 8 and 11 years old.
00:57Two adults of 20 and 23 came to me and they said, Hi, Papi.
01:04I didn't recognize them.
01:07That was very, very terrible.
01:08I cried a lot.
01:10What would it mean to any of us to lose a decade and not be connected to anything that
01:16happened during that time or who you are right now?
01:19I asked to my wife, why my mama isn't yet come to visit?
01:26Your mama has died three years ago.
01:28What are you saying?
01:29My mama is alive.
01:32No, no.
01:34No.
01:35You've not only missed what's happened in the world, you've missed who you've become.
01:42The first question every morning after the accident in the mirror when I look to myself
01:48was, what do you want to do in your life?
01:51Like Emi, my passion was to be a doctor.
01:55You know, there's this question of identity that comes up.
01:58Who am I if I can't remember?
02:00To try to understand who I was, I read 65,000 emails that I received and I sent and read
02:09that I was really very cold, a big bastard.
02:13You can't speak to people like that.
02:16Do I want to be that person they're all telling me I was, or can I be someone different?
02:22I think that God gave me a second chance.
02:26I became more empathetic.
02:28The accident has given you something the rest of us never get.
02:31It's a chance to do things differently.
02:34To watch the show inspired by my story was very, very emotional.
02:40It was like to open my scars again.
02:44The similarities between my story and Emi's story, before I was more like a machine.
02:52Now I'm more like a person.
02:54Molly Parker's performance reminds me of myself.
03:00Molly Parker is me.
03:02I will be a doctor again.
03:04I hope when people watch Doc, they feel like they should never give up.
03:10It's a story of hope.
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